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vkethana
2y ago
I think the main practical benefit of cognateful sentences is that they can speed up the process of learning a new language
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vkethana
2y ago
Nuenki looks pretty cool! Thanks for sharing this. I will definitely check out Claude 3.5 for scoring. Quick question: Your site mentions using Claude 3.5-Sonnet for translating sentences. On average, how much inference cost does each user
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Generating Cognateful Sentences with LLMs
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2y ago
I built an app that teaches French by generating "cognateful" sentences: French text that English speakers can partially understand through cognate words, with difficulty automatically calibrated using LLMs to score sentence compr
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Startup tips from an ed-tech founder
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vkethana
2y ago
I attended a speaker event on ed-tech startups hosted by Y Combinator at UC Berkeley. The speaker had some interesting things to say about startups, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on Hacker News.
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vkethana
2y ago
I couldn't think of a good digraph for the "OO" in book. The most available option is "OH", but that might mislead readers into thinking "OH" = the "o" in "over" and not the "oo&qu
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2y ago
One reason why IPA isn't a good choice is that etymological spellings are very important, and IPA doesn't really preserve those. For example, French "biographie" (BYOO-graffey) sounds very different from English "bi
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2y ago
Both “Grahyam” and “Gray’m” are writable in VJScript. Even if the script has some ambiguity because regional variations in pronunciation, it is still a substantial improvement over ordinary English spelling Also, thanks to you and all the o
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2y ago
Thanks for pointing out these mistakes - I added the schwa back into the vowel inventory (forgot to include in the original post) - added clarification for how to write the “ir” in “bird” or “firm”
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2y ago
probably doable with a chrome extension + search and replace
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Inventing my own writing system for English, VJScript
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3y ago
That stood out to me as well - just one more day and, legally speaking, the situation would've been totally different.
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"Stop this madness": Alaska Airlines door blowout follows trail of negligence
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3y ago
My favorite quote from the article: "It is incomprehensible that Boeing designed the software to take input from only a single vulnerable sensor... Why did Boeing ignore aviation's time-honored principle of redundancy?"